Reposted by Pavol HardošJacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨🚨 Social media venues such as #facebook and #instagram's algorithms have been designed by #meta to filter out 'social topic' such as #civilrights and #feminism. #Freespeech my ass. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comMeta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminismTheatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism 15323202
Reposted by Pavol HardošThis skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Oh, the @nytimes.com is writing about the class ceiling! Surely they will have cited and talked to Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison who wrote about this, oh, 8 ish years ago, and not an economist who rediscovered the now obvious but published it in Journal of Econowhatever! Oh, wait. 915439
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026In my chapter I explain why some conservatives find anti-gender discourses appealing, but also why these are inherently conspiratorial. The chapter might interest students of ideologies, conspiracy theories, far-right, & anti-gender movements. Free pdf here: karolinum.cz/data/book/33... 050
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This book has just been published by Karolinum press; it looks at how various "Others" were formed in the Czech & Slovak discourses of the culture wars in the 2010s, i.e. the anti-gender, anti-Roma, antisemitic, or anti-Muslim discourses. It includes my chapter on "Gender Ideology" Conspiracism. 183
Reposted by Pavol HardošDr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026We are in the “you can’t learn that anymore” stage of fascism, for anyone still keeping track. 26995426
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The problem w/ Cofnases & the far right in general is that they enjoy the privileges of institutions they work to undermine, they use the tools & rights of university & democratic life to pull down the entire edifice - & fellow academics just continue to sell them the rope they wish to hang us with! 030
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Even worse, some try to pretend in their highmindedness that we have to defend the academic freedoms of racist frauds or else we are failling academia!? FFS, no! A person whose values are at odds with values of academic institutions deserves no protection, only speedy ostracism. 120
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The vicarious embarassment I feel when I see respectable academics lining up to defend this vile moron, ready to defend the “academic freedom” of a fraud is as embarassing as when others tried to deny Arday’s faults. But this is worse! Cofnas is transparent, has been for years! 120
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This is not a question of academic freedom, this is not a case of a “whistleblower” being punished for their integrity, this is a case of a far right ideologue exposing himself and embarassing an institution that hired him. A fraud who forgot he is also a fraud. 120
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A person hired not on merit but for opaque ideological reasons with a history of fraudulent, pseudoscientific work has exposed another fraud and accidentally put the spotlight on himself when the first fraud was hounded to a suicide in a racist campaign he helped orchestrate. 130
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Like with Arday, with Cofnas the real scandal is how did such a fraud get an academic job in the first place. That is the real question, not why he is finally being fired. But now people who should know better are getting their panties in a twist and call this fraud a whistleblower. 150
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Standing athwart history, politely asking 'what?', 'come again?', and 'are you serious?'. 050
Reposted by Pavol HardošLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 15/08/2026"'Immigration' for neofascists is merely a way of talking about race… When ministers say they’re deporting 'illegal immigrants,' neofascists reply that they still see hundreds of them in the street. They’re not checking the papers of everyone they pass. They just mean non-white people."liberalcurrents.comFascists Really Believe ItMillions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory. 07111
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It's all #openaccess and can be found here: doi.org/10.4324/9781...doi.orgConspiracy Theories in the European Digital Sphere | Clare Birchall, NConspiracy Theories in the European Digital Sphere offers a comparative account of online conspiracism, considered in terms of platform preferences, ideological 071
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The book offers a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective on online conspiracy theories, which are examined in terms of digital platforms, ideological content, culture, political context, communication flows, and the role that online conspiracy theories play in shaping community and identity. 150
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It’s a chapter that may be somewhat provocative, which is why I’m already looking forward to the response (not just from the usual suspects). -- Overall, it was an amazing experience and a joy. Just look at the authors: a dream team of leading experts on conspiracy theories from all over Europe. 130
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I’m most proud of our (w/ Ela Drazkiewicz) case study on Poland & Slovakia where we examine the anti-gender narratives of our broad illiberal right - both online and offline - and ask why these anti-gender and anti-LGBT *conspiracy theories* are almost never identified (or "labelled") as such. 141
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 08/08/2026🎉 *Conspiracy Theories in the European Digital Sphere* has just been published; it is the result of the international research project REDACT, in which I had the honor of participating as a researcher. (Thus whenever Slovakia is discussed in this book, I had a hand in it as an author.) 2113
Reposted by Pavol HardošMarc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026In this oa contribution to Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Jale Tosun, Nils Schütz, Elisabeth Maikranz and I show that the programmatic gap between churches and Christian Democratic parties in Germany on the issue of migration has widened over the years. rdcu.be/ft6wy /1 1197
Reposted by Pavol HardošDougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026haha, thats a great post. unfortunately you phrased it in a way that allowed me, a moron, to misunderstand it 145289932
Reposted by Pavol HardošPetter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153... 4934511433
Reposted by Pavol HardošJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Not great that the richest man in the world agrees with this post. Note the giant gun in the image. 👀 1/ 1862180495
Reposted by Pavol HardošTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios 141180875569
Reposted by Pavol HardošYannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The world's largest platforms are built around US free speech norms. But do users elsewhere actually share those norms? New paper (N=13,475; 10 countries) with @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social, and @friederikeq.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comIdeology and free speech values predict content moderation preferences: cross-national evidence across targets of hate speech - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Ideology and free speech values predict content moderation preferences: cross-national evidence across targets of hate speech 192
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Mám rozhovor v Denníku SME pri príležitosti 10. výročia projektu Konspiratori*sk a tiež pri príležitosti nášho víťazstva na ústavnom súde. Tu: www.sme.sk/domov/c/slob... 0122
Reposted by Pavol HardošMAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 18/06/2026🇺🇦😄 Ukrainian Monobank has a new card design 361154180
Reposted by Pavol HardošCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/06/2026What is perhaps the saddest part is that, as she realizes she is going to be raped by Tate, she worries about her “brand”. 0498
Reposted by Pavol HardošMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Shocked by the number of people who fall for this one. “Feminists and misogynists are the same because they are both dissatisfied with gender relations.” 29914185
Reposted by Pavol HardošQueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 29/05/2026“What we are seeing is a coordinated and well-resourced effort to roll back trans people’s rights and reshape public debate.” New research maps, for the first time, the rapid rise of ‘gender critical’ organisations alongside high volumes of anti-trans media coverage.wearequeeraf.comJK Rowling mentioned four times as often as actual trans people in media coverage of 'trans issues', research findsThe rapid rise of 'gender critical' organisations in the UK shows ahigh volume of anti-trans media coverage and increasing spending by 51 organisations 011454
Reposted by Pavol HardošJaroslava Rusinková @jrusinkova.bsky.social · 25/05/20262. Toto blahosklonné pokyvkávanie hlavou intelektuálov nad obyvateľmi z menších miest je nový štylistický štandard? "Hľa, ľud, prišli sme vám rozumieť!" 271
Reposted by Pavol HardošSasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data. 26865340
Reposted by Pavol HardošAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026That these racist thugs have morphed into "far right influencers" is central. Being a bigot used to be a hobby. It is now a profession. We don't have to treat the monetisation of hate as an inevitable phenomenon. We can regulate platforms - not to supress speech, but to remove financial incentives. 8596202
Reposted by Pavol HardošKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/05/2026One more thought: what if the internet-fueled participatory propaganda cycles — and those who know how to exploit them — are really good at garnering attention, harnessing grievance, and tearing down things (trust, institutions, USAID, the WH's east wing, etc.) but really bad at actually governing? 924558
Reposted by Pavol HardošStephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026It’s been only 8 days since the Supreme Court’s VRA ruling. Republicans in Florida and Tennessee have already passed new congressional gerrymanders for 2026. Alabama is on the verge of doing so, and Louisiana will follow within days. Mississippi and South Carolina are actively debating it too 42316
Reposted by Pavol HardošAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow 20073043067
Reposted by Pavol HardošJuraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 04/05/2026“1940: The Invention of Western and Eastern Europe”, one is tempted to quip tongue in cheek. 033
Reposted by Pavol HardošJuraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Emotional support animal: makes the owner feel more comfortable in social situations. Dominance support animal: makes others feel less comfortable in social situations. 111
Reposted by Pavol HardošZoltan Miklosi @zmiklosi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026For years, but especially in the last few months, I have been trying hard to imagine what it will feel like seeing Orban decisively defeated. I just couldn't. And yet here we are: it is truly and well over. I have more reservations about Peter Magyar than I could say in 300 characters or a thread... 8645182
Reposted by Pavol HardošPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it. 11368601149
Reposted by Pavol HardošJuraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Mr Fico's junior gov't partner SNS proposes to regulate political polling and assign the supervisory authority to the state-controlled Statistical Office of The Slovak Republic. Bolivia comes to mind. All of Slovakia's established pollsters estimate SNS < the 5% entry threshold since late 2024. 296
Reposted by Pavol HardošKai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 25/03/2026'Hey, look at #Denmark! Social Democrats can stay relevant and marginalise the #farright by becoming - get this! - a bit like the far right!' Parrotted by every medium, contemplated by every SD party, ridiculed by every political scientist. 912555
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 17/03/2026For those who don't read (and let's be honest, who does anymore).... here is the recent REDACT project final report in the form of a video! Featuring @cb-hq.bsky.social @beetroot.bsky.social @mlmadisson.bsky.social and Michael Butter, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz & Nebojša Blanuša youtu.be/U5QPNDHa0JE?...youtu.beResearching Europe, Digitalisation and Conspiracy Theories (REDACT)YouTube video by REDACT 041
Reposted by Pavol HardošGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 27/02/2026weird how every time a "moderate liberal" party cites "electoral realities" for embracing fascist policies they get shit canned 🙃 151848
Reposted by Pavol HardošCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 26/02/2026This article by Joep van Lit and Carolien van Ham is very useful for those interested in empirically studying democratic erosion in all its complexities. 14016
Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 22/02/2026The problem with training AI models on existing human-made data is that there might not be enough smart content. The 80:20 rule and all that; what you will end up with, at best, is a general artificial mediocrity. 040